Lack of Confidence in JKR (WAS:Greatest Fear/greatest Hope)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 121702


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mizstorge" <lszydlowski at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mizstorge" 
<lszydlowski at h...> 
> wrote:
> All I have to add to this discourse, besides nodding in agreement
> to those who said there doesn't seem to be a unifying Slytherin 
> philosphy of evil, is my great surprise no one jumped on my comment 
> about hoping the ending wouldn't be LAME! 

Hickengruendler: 

Okay, than I will. ;-)

> After what I consider the 
> underwhelming revelations about the prophecy at the end of OOtP 
(Jo, 
> honey, we already knew all that. Or suspected it. Whatever.)

Hickengruendler:

But you shouldn't forget, why we suspected it. Because JKR played 
fair and gave the hint in the book. She could just have never 
mentioned in PoA, that Trelawney already made an important prophecy, 
and in this case we all would have been surprised by it in PoA. But 
she even said, that she put clues in the books to give us a fair 
chance to figure a few things out. Here she did it. She played fair 
and gave the reader enough information.  

> and IMO 
> the poor job on POA the movie, I have felt my confidence at being 
in 
> the hands of a skillful writer diminish. 

Hickengruendler: What has JKR to do with the movie? She had other 
things to do while it was shot, like writing book 6. IMO, fans really 
overestimate the influence JKR has at the movies. She might be able 
to stop them if they are doing something that contradicts something 
that happens in a future book, but she is not that much involved in 
it, that anything we like/don't like about the movies can be 
attributed to her. (And I hope this wasn't off-topic, I know that we 
are not supposed to discuss the movie here, but this was not really 
about the movie, was it?) 

Since JKR's comment that 
> when the series is finished that she wants to go back and fix a few 
> things, I've begun to doubt that in fact she had it all planned out 
> since before Book 1 and has been actually changing things as she 
goes 
> along to suit the new direction. 

Hickengruendler:

Yes, and she said so. She said that a few things were changed, for 
example giving Rita some of the part the Weasley cousin should have 
played, or adding more about Hermione and the house-elves. But that's 
hardly a surprise, she made the plans more than a decade ago. They 
are bound to change, if only because the author has hopefully changed 
in this time. But the central plot is still the same, I am sure about 
it. Otherwise it will be impossible for JKR to resolve it, because 
all the different storylines are much to interwoven, now. And she 
already did change a few things in the later editions of earlier 
books, like Flint's year. I suppose she was talking about such 
details, that don't involve the plot directly.

Personally, I am not afraid that the ending will be lame. So far I 
liked every book she has written, and I see no reason as why this 
should change.